For the first time since I arrived here nine years ago we are having two weeks of consecutive freezing temperatures!
The compost piles are stalled. It's just too miserable out there with the windchill to really do any work.
All my buckets are frozen and the hoop houses are just barely keeping my greens alive.
Normally this time of year here in the Piedmont I hope be noticing buds and small flowers on the forsythia. The first crocuses would be popping up and the daffodils wouldn't be blooming but their stalks would be climbing fast.
Not this year. Even the weeds are struggling. My plans are stalled. So what is an overeager gardener to do?
Watch TV!!!
Netflix to the rescue!!
I'm getting my garden on by watching the wonderful British TV show, Rosemary & Thyme.
These two ladies, Rosemary Boxer, a trained horticulturalist and her friend Laura Thyme, a retired police officer, run a business refurbishing and rescuing abandoned gardens. While solving murders! Where ever they go bodies turn up, usually in their garden spaces. Not the type to let the police do their work, Laura and Rosemary stick their noses in places they don't belong, question people they shouldn't be approaching and disturb evidence in their quest for justice and good compost. People should be afraid to hire them as invariably a relative or friend winds up dead and even the employers are not above suspicion. It's a wonder they ever get paid for their services!
No honestly I love this show. They visit beautiful locations and gardens. They've been to medieval gardens, walled kitchen gardens, cascades, allotments, cemeteries, all sorts of places. They delve into plant disease and exotic varieties and it's all just enough for me to get my very needed gardening fix this winter.
So if you need a fun gardening lift, give Rosemary & Thyme a chance. The scenery is beautiful.
No comments:
Post a Comment